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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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Against these words of the king, Anselm thinking not best to reply again by any Message, but by word of mouth, coming himself personally to the king, placeth himself (after his order) on the right hand of the Prince, where he made his reply unto the message sent to him by the king.1 Where as ye say, I ought not to go to Rome either for lack of any trespass, or for abundance of counsel and knowledge in me (albeit I grant to neither of them as true) yet what the truth is therein, I refer it to ⟨p. 186⟩the judgement of God. And whereas ye say that I promised to keep and observe your customs: that I grant, but with a condition: so far to keep them, and such of them to observe, as were consonant to the laws of God, & ruled with right and equity. Moreover, whereas ye charge me with breach of my fidelity and allegiance, for that contrary to your customs I appeal to the Sea Apostolic (my reverence and duty to your sovereignty reserved) if an other would say it,2 that is untrue. For the fidelity and obeisance that I owe to thee (O King) I have it of the faith and fidelity of God, whose Vicar S. Peter is: to whose seat I do appeal. Farther, whereas ye require me to swear, that I shall for no cause hereafter at any time appeal to Rome: I pronounce openly that a christian Prince requireth such an oath of his Archbishop unjustly. For if I should forswear S. Peter, I should deny Christ. And when I shall at any time deny Christ, then shall I be content and ready to stand to my satisfaction of my transgression to you, for asking license to go to Rome. And peradventure when I am gone, the goods of the Church shall not so serve your temporal desires and commodities as ye ween for. At these words of the Bishop, the king and his nobles were not a little incensed: defending again, that in observing the kings customs, there was neither condition nor any clause put in, either of God or right. No was, said Anselm? If so be that in your customs was neither mention made of God nor of right, whereof was there mention then? For God forbid that any Christian should be bound to any customs, which go contrary to God and to right: Thus on both sides passed much altercation between them. At length, the king after many threatening words, told him he should carry nothing out of the realm with him.